Section 407
Statutory text (Thai original)
บุคคลใดได้กระทำการอันใดตามอำเภอใจเหมือนหนึ่งว่าเพื่อชำระหนี้โดยรู้อยู่ว่าตนไม่มีความผูกพันที่จะต้องชำระ ท่านว่าบุคคลผู้นั้นหามีสิทธิจะได้รับคืนทรัพย์ไม่
Verbatim from the Royal Gazette / Office of the Council of State
English translation
A person who has freely done an act as if in performance of an obligation, knowing that he was not bound to effect the performance, is not entitled to restitution.
This English translation is provided for reference only and has not yet been firm-verified. Always rely on the Thai original.
Firm annotation
Section 407 is part of Book 2 (Obligations) of the Thai Civil and Commercial Code. This entry is awaiting firm-authored commentary; the statutory text above is verbatim from the Office of the Council of State (OCS Krisdika) Thai source, with the English translation from the FAO/UN FAOLEX repository. Always rely on the Thai original for legal proceedings.
Cited in 58 Supreme Court decisions (1963 to 2022)
Selected citing decisions
- Decision 6518/2562 (2019)
- Decision 2131/2560 (2017)
- Decision 564/2560 (2017)
- Decision 13145/2558 (2015)
- Decision 584/2558 (2015)
- Decision 11645/2554 (2011)
- Decision 10625/2554 (2011)
- Decision 8000/2553 (2010)
This list is selected automatically, weighted towards judgments that turn on this section rather than ones that merely recite it when passing sentence. It has not yet been reviewed by the firm.
Most often cited alongside
- Section 654 12
- Thai CPC s. 142 11
- Section 411 11
- Section 224 9
- Section 406 8
- Thai CPC s. 94 5
Sections that appear in the same judgments as this one most often. The figure is the number of decisions.
Counted across the firm's corpus of 83,652 Supreme Court decisions, 1921 to 2026. The count is complete; the stated year range trims rare outliers so it describes where the citations actually sit. These figures are computed by us and are not official court statistics.
Cite this section
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Plain citation
Civil and Commercial Code, s. 407 (Thailand) -
Academic citation
Civil and Commercial Code (Thailand), s. 407. ThaiLawOnline, https://www.thailawonline.com/thai-civil-code/section-407/ (accessed 8 August 2026). -
Thai citation
ป.พ.พ. มาตรา 407 -
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